Jamie Zawinski Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I love anything quiz related.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.
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I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.
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I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
